> We need to remember that users are generally illiterate when it comes > to the details of how their computer functions. That's why they are > USERS. They don't know (or care) how or why their computer works. > All they care about is that it does what they need for it to do. > Quite frankly, that is all they really SHOULD have to care about.
Yes. But... > It is not necessary for me to understand all the gory intimate > details of how my car works in order for me to use it in a safe > fashion. The same should be true of my computer. ...the technology isn't there yet. Back in the early days of automobiles, every car owner - or at least driver - more or less had to be a decent mechanic. It took many decades to get from there to here with cars. I don't see it as at all surprising that computers - much more complex in relevant ways - aren't really ready for use by people who just want a tool, nor do I expect that to change soon. The actual problem is that people (mostly with a vested interest in increasing the computer-user population) have marketed them as usable by the blinking-twelve crowd, and we (whoever "we" are) are now faced with a mess thus created and are being expected to make the fantasy that was sold to them cone true. I for one am not interested in trying to do so - at least not in any way other than playing my own small part in the natural evolution of the field in that direction. "Dammit, Jim, I'm an OS hacker, not a miracle worker!" (Well, okay, I do do application work sometimes. :) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
